Time is one constant adversary that can never be stopped. It
persists no matter how many barriers we try to put against it. I began this
novel on Tuesday February 11, 2025. I completed this novel on September 5,
2025. It was written by Felix J. Palma. It has 609 pages.
Andrew Harington would commit suicide to eradicate the past.
Andrew imagined that the moon was a place where the dead waited to carry on
with the living.
“The sorrow that had cast a shadow over his soul has taken its
toll over his appearance, too, for he could scarcely recognize himself in this
aging youth, with hallowed cheeks, drawn cast eyes, and unkempt beard who
stared back at him into a dried up swollen creature.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 10
“If, as he read somewhere, every man’s paradise was in a
different place, Andrew’s was undoubtedly here, a place he had reached guided
by a map not charted rivers or valleys but kisses and caresses.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 18
“What mysterious alchemy could make these illustrations
appear more vivid than the real thing? The answer was obvious: the passage of
time, which transferred the volatile present into the finished, unalterable painting
called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly with erratic brushstrokes
that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to
admire it at a whole.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 19
Andrew had a long time friend, Charles, who was his cousin. Charles
bought his father a painting of a prostitute that his father adored. Andrew
went to White Chapel a few days later to look for her because he felt so deeply
in love with her. Andrew found the woman in the pub.
“From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzle mankind with volcanic eruptions, but
had it’s own secret way of communicating with the select few people like Andrew
who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering something
else.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 32
Three prostitutes were killed for their money in the last
month.
“A look it seems is a bottomless well of opportunity.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 43
Charles found out from the servants about Andrew’s love.
“No paradise is complete without a serpant.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 51
Jack the Ripper was the White Chapel Murderer. Andrew told
his father about Marie and was disowned. Andrew found Marie killed by Jack the
Ripper.
“For the first time Andrew realized that life, real life,
had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed,
what medals were pinned on them or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went
on soundlessly inside our bodies, flowed like an underwater stream, occurred
like a silent miracle of which only surgeons and pathologists were aware, and
perhaps ruthless killers too. They were fueled by the breath of God.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 63
They caught Jack the Ripper who was a cook on a ship. He
killed his own mother as soon as he could hold a knife. She was a prostitute.
Andrew started taking opium.
“How many people go through life without experiencing pure
pain?”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 73
Charles wanted to help his cousin deal with his depression.
Andrew was on the verge of committing suicide. Charles slipped him a note which
read:
“Tired of traveling through space? Now you can travel
through time, into the fourth dimension. Make the most of our special offer and
journey to the year 2000. Witness an era only your grandchildren will live to
see. Spend three whole hours in the year 2000 for a mere hundred pounds. See
with your own eyes the future war between automation and humans that will
change the fate of the world. Don’t be the last to hear about it.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 77
“We are aware that objects possess three dimensions: length,
breadth and thickness; in order for the object to exist, in order for it to
form part of this reality we find ourselves in, it needs duration in time as
well as space. That is what enables us to see it and prevents it from
disappearing before our very eyes. We live than in a four dimensional world. If
we accept that time is another dimension, what is to stop us from moving
through it? In fact, that is what we are doing.”
Charles
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 82
“Not everyone thinks time travel is a good thing for society."
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 92
“The problem is that we don’t travel through the time
continuum. We travel outside it, across the surface of time.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 94
“Science enables man, reaffirms his control over nature.”
Felix J. Palma
Time travelling is one of mankind’s oldest desires.
Map of Time p. 95
When they stepped through to the other world Kaufman and
Austin’s pocket watches stopped. When they returned they started back up again. Their beards
stopped growing as well in the other world.
“Gilliam discovered what was underneath the world, what was
behind reality. He had discovered the fourth dimension.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 119
“With the whims of fate and not our own whims our future s
were shaped.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 143
“Failure could be enjoyed just as much as prosperity.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 148
“Novels were not slices of life, but more or less controlled
creations reproducing slices of imaginary, polished lives where boredom and the
futile, useless acts that make us any existence were replaced with exciting episodes.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 165
“One should probably resign oneself to not expecting to much
from this world, where we live in. Sometimes I think that if an angel were to
be before a priest he would probably shoot it.”
Merrick
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 169
“Striving to reach a dream is never a waste of time.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 170
“Hypercube is a cube out of phase that contained every
single of existence, all occurring at the same time—something that man's
current three-dimensional version prevented him from seeing."
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 179
“For most people, the known world was a tiresome hostile
place, but that was because they only could see part of it. Now people were consoled
by the notion that, just a bland roast of meat is made tastier by seasonings,
the unaware if they imagined if it was no longer reduced to what they were able
to see, but contained a secret compartment that could somehow make it bigger.
The fourth dimension gave their dull planet a magical feel, it conjured up the
existence of a different world, where the desires that were impossible in the
three-dimensional world might be realized.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time pp. 179-180
“Man was trapped in the timeline and could only move in time
mentally or visualizing the future by means of his imagination. However he
could free himself from this constraint if he had a machine, which, like the
hot air balloon, enabled him to triumph over the impossible, that is to say to
project himself physically into the future by speeding up time, or going back
in time by slowing it down.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time
“This Garden of Eden (Wells created) was inhabitant by the
extremely beautiful, slender Elo, the exquisite result of human evolution that
had not only corrected the weaknesses of the species, but had taken the
opportunity of ridding it along the way of ugliness, coarseness unpleasant
features.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 183
“Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and
no necessity for change.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 184
Charles had traveled back in time to save Marie Kelley from
Jack the Ripper. Andrew created another universe with Marie Kelley, but in
doing so he couldn’t be with her.
“Just as a tree's roots grow around a rock, so the
consequences of his actions, which could not simply vanish into thin air, had
created another reality.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 220
“Perhaps those sounds we hear in the night, the croaking
noise we assume are the furniture, are simply the footsteps of our future self
watching over us as we sleep without
daring to disturb us.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 221
“It made him giddy just to think that at each crossroads,
clutches of other Andrews were born, and their lives went on some time as his,
beyond the moment when his life ended, without his being aware of it, because
ultimately it was man’s limited senses which established the boundaries of the
world. But what if, like a magician’s box, the world had a false bottom and continued
beyond the point where his senses told him it stopped?”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 225
“Each man's life forms part of a vast tapestry, woven
together with those of countless other souls keen to judge his actions not only
in his face but behind his back.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 227
Claire had no intention of coming back from the year 2000,
while Lucy did want to.
“Claire still recalled the smartly dressed boy with the sad,
chubby face sitting at a desk, dipping his quill into the inkwell and drawing
it across a piece of paper. The doll had traced each letter with alarming
slowness of someone living outside time, even pausing occasionally to stare
into space, as though waiting for another wave of inspiration.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 247
“Isn’t the future always the result of the past?
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 251
“Fate is fate.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 252
They created automotronic soldiers in the future. The automaton
placed a crown on his head and called himself Solomon. Solomon had a mechanical
army since he had killed the human overlord. They came out to pledge allegiance.
Their were nannies, factory workers, to dull office workers even butler’s cooks
and maids were read to follow him. He called them “the little ones.” The First
Council of Automation in the Free World was formed. He kept two human, a male
and female in a cage of solid gold to reproduce. A boy escaped the palace by
playing dead and being thrown out with the garbage. He wanted to form a
revolution against the automatons. So much so that it seemed bullets couldn’t stop
him.
“The youth’s deep hatred of the automatons made him cling to
life.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 373
They just time traveled to the year 2000.
“Fate is fate.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 285
“Humans were undoubtedly quicker but clearly far more
fragile than these creatures, who had slowly but surely taken the planet,
perhaps because they had the whole eternity to do so.”
Map of Time p. 286
“The one positive thing about war is that the way it united the
human race as never before.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 287
“Conjuring tricks dazzled us, they even make us think magic
exists, but if we only saw how they did it, we’d ask ourselves how we could
have been some easily fooled.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 306
“It’s an object that doesn’t move physically through the
time continuum. It’s fixed in the future and from there it, well…it makes holes
we can travel through to the other eras. Like holes in rocks …it digs tunnels
through the fabric of time.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 333
Tom went to HG Wells house to ask for help in writing a love
letter to Claire Haggerty for they had just made love.
“Persistent love does not last forever; it merely transforms
to other bodies.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 369
Wells agreed to write the letter for Shackleton.
“Even fantasies must be plausible.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 388
“I want people to believe in my invention without realizing
it’s an invention.”
Gilliam Murray
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 389
“Now I now that nothing brings two souls together than the
act of kissing, awakening the desire for one another.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 398
HG Wells met Claire Haggerty. She was burying herself alive
due to an illusion.
“It felt so good to let himself be enveloped by the
protective mental of that immense unconditional love, the magic cape shielding
him from life’s coldness, the icy indifference of every day that made his soul
tremble, the incessant wind filtering through the shutters and seeping into his
innermost depths.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 436
One of the most important thing in this world is to make a
mark.
Tom was drowned by Murray and his men. He was rescued by Solomon.
He saw Claire after and made love again.
“Distinguished gentleman and impressionable ladies, we have
arrived at the closing pages of our thrilling Tale. What marvels are there
still in store for you? If you wish to find out make sure your attention does
not stray for an instant, because an even amazing discovery you will be able to
travel in time to your hearts content, into the past as well as the future.
Dear reader if you are no coward, dare to finish what you have
started?
We can guarantee
This final journey
Is well worth the effort!”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 445
“Science and it’s amazing creations would beat the rhythm to
which humanity would dance.”
Collin Garrett
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 464
“Science drives events, and mankind must adapt. Above all
laws are to remain effective, we must update them to suit the changing faces of
the world. Even so when it comes to time travel. We are at the dawn of an
evolutionary era that will doubtlessly redefine the world as we know it, and
whose inherent dangers are possible, or extremely difficult to judge.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 464
Wells made all of England curious about Time Travel, but he
himself had no interest.
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p.
Murray began reading to escape the drama of his fathers
death.
“Purely by accident the way most things happen in life, you
gave me a reason to carry on, a goal which, I were to achieve it would give me the
longed-for fulfillment, the elusive happiness I could never obtain.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 484
“People see what they wish to see.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 492
Gilliam conned the Queen of England into believing he was a
time traveler. She financed a palace in the Fourth Dimension, which she was
going to use as a retreat, however it was never going to be completed, because
of the Time War.
“In reality, all I’m doing is making people dream. Isn’t it
a shame to think I could be punished for that?”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 484
Wells was to meet the mysterious time traveler at 50 Berkley
Square in London. The Time Traveler is a
Librarian.
“During the next century, scientists, physicists,
mathematicians, all over the world will become embroiled in the possibility or impossibility
of time travel. Theories will abound on how to achieve it, all of which will
run up against the immutable nature of the universe, which regrettably lacks
many of the physical characteristics necessary for them to test their theories.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time pp. 521-522
“Even so, scientists in my time will refuse to admit defeat
and will persist in finding a way of fulfilling man’s deepest longings to be
able to travel along the time continuum in any direction he pleases. But all
their efforts prove in vain. Do you know why? Because in the end time travel
will not be achieved through science.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 522
“Man’s brain is equipped with some sort of superior
awareness that allows him to move through time in the same way he moves through
space. And even though he is far from being able to harness it, he can activate
it which is already a huge accomplishment.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 253
“As you can imagine, it was not before the Government
created a department responsible for rounding up people showing this ability to
study them and help them motivate their skills in a controlled environment.
Needless to say, registration with the department was not voluntary. What
government would people who possessed a talent to roam free? No, Homo temporis,
as they came to be referred to, had to
be supervised. Be that as it may, the study of those affected did succeed in
throwing some light on the strange phenomenon: it was discovered, for example,
that the time travelers did not move through the time continuum at a constant
speed until the inertia of the impulse was used and they came to a halt, as in
the case of Mr. Well's machine. Instead, they moved instantaneously from place to
place, leaping through the void as it were, only able to control whether they
landed in the past or in the future through intuition, as with initial leap.
One thing seemed clear: the further they traveled, the more
their energy was depleted after the journey. Some took several days to recover,
while others remained in a comatose state from which they never recovered. They
also discovered that if they concentrate very hard, they could transport
objects and even people with them on their leaps through time, although the
latter proved doubly exhausting. In any event, once they had understood as much
as they could about the mechanism in the mind that enabled people to travel in
time, the most pressing question, the one that had given rise to heated debates
even before time travel became a reality, still remained to be answered: could
the past be changed or was it unalterable? Many physicists maintained that if
someone traveled into the past, say with the intention of shooting someone, the
gun would explode in their hands because the universe would automatically
realign itself. They assumed the universe must possess some sort of self-awareness
designed to protect its integrity, which would prevent the person from dying,
because they had not died. However, by
no means of a series of controlled experiments based on making tiny adjustments
to the recent past, they discovered that time had no such protective mechanism.
It was as vulnerable as a snail without its shell. History, everything that has
taken place, could be changed.
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time pp. 524-525
“A portrait of the true universe, one that enables us to detect
any anomaly.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 527
A group of scientists built an observation platform in the
Triassic Era of dinosaurs. The place where the world’s memory is stored is
known as the library of truth.
“Parallel universes were meant to be a way of avoiding the
temporal paradoxes that might occur if it turned out the past was not immutable,
that it could be changed. What would happen, for instance, if someone traveled
into the past and killed their grandmother before she gave birth to their
mother?”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 428
The Time Traveler took Wells, Stoker, and the rest to a Map
of Time. This map had clippings of past, current and future events. The authors
couldn’t tear themselves away from it The
truths it held were outstanding.
The Time Traveling
gene is a mutation. That is why only certain people can achieve this form of travel.
The gene was handed down through the generations, meaning all time travelers
have a common ancestor.
Marcus was a time traveler. However he stole first editions
that were never published and kept them for himself.
“Time travel gives you the chance to do things differently.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 580
“According to the theory of multiple worlds, changes to the
past do not affect the present, but create an alternative present, a new universe
that runs alongside the original, which remained intact.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 584
“Sometimes the best way to find out what we want is to
choose what we do not want.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 585
Wells threw horse manure on Gilliam's building and returned home.
“Parallel worlds Wells had completely forgotten about he had
obliged to make up to save the young man’s life. But did they really exist? Did
each of man’s decisions give rise to a different world? I fact it was naïve to
think that there was only one alternative to each predicament. What about
unchosen universes, the ones that were flushed away; why should they have less
right to exist than others? Wells doubted very much whether the structure of
the universe depended on the unpredictable desire of that fickle, timid
creature called man. It was more reasonable to suppose that the universe was far richer
and far more immeasurable than our senses could perceive that when man was
faced with two or more options, he inevitably ended up choosing all of them,
for his ability to choose was simply an illusion. And sought, the worlds kept
splitting into different worlds that showed breadth and complexity of the
universe, worlds that exploited their full potential, drained all of its
possibilities, worlds that evolved alongside one another, perhaps only differentiated
by an insignificant detail such as how many flies were in each, because even
killing one of these annoying insects implied it was a choice it was an
insignificant gesture that gave birth to a new universe all the same.”
Felix J. Palma
Map of Time p. 605
